At MIT’s October Math Prize for Girls event, this year held virtually, 307 students from around the country. The weekend featured a panel talk moderated by Dr. Ranu Boppana ’87, and featuring four Math Prize alumnae, including mathematics and computer science major Rona Wang ’22. A 2015 Math Prize alum, Wang shared her experience: “In […]
Bonnie Berger to give SIAM lecture
December 5, 2019
Bonnie Berger has been selected to give the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture at the SIAM Annual Meeting in 2020! The Prize is awarded to highlight the achievements of women in Applied and Computational Mathematics. Earlier recipients can be found here.Congratulations, Bonnie!
Speakers discuss their post-math career trajectories
September 17, 2019
On Sept. 16, 2019, Prof. Gigliola Staffilani hosted “From Here to Where? Conversations with 4 successful math majors who have achieved 4 very different goals in their careers.” Three of the speakers were Teal Guidici, a Machine Intelligence Scientist at Draper who applies statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms to applications, such as using neural […]
Teaching + Learning Lab Speaker Series: How increasing equity in the science classroom drives social change
September 9, 2019
Sep 11 (W) | 2:00 – 3:00 pm | 6-104 (The Chipman Room) Dr. Cissy Ballen (Auburn University) will address how certain features ofthe introductory science classroom create barriers for historically underserved students. This explanation for observed performance disparities, the “course deficitmodel”, considers the negative impact of environmental conditions on student learning and participation. Dr. Ballen will demonstrate how […]
WiSDM to promote visibility of women in STEM
June 12, 2019
Ritu Raman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Koch Institute, is working on an initiative to promote women in STEM, The Women in STEM Database at MIT (WiSDM) is an initiative designed to promote the visibility of women in our academic community. The goal of WiSDM is to provide a curated searchable online database of MIT women, making it easier to […]
Prof. Nike Sun Speaks at SDSC Conference
May 23, 2019
Prof. Nike Sun “described progress toward a solution in a theoretical geometric problem in classic probability called the Ising perceptron” at the third annual MIT Statistics and Data Science Center conference, which gathered a growing interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners. Read more at MIT News.